Dor Ben-Amotz

In this issue; recent developments in turning promising compounds into drug candidates, reviewing the latest trends in pharmaceutical microbiology and their implications, and a roundtable debate featuring the views of five industry leaders.

Laser-induced fluorescence is the most common source of interfering baseline signal encountered in Raman measurements. It shows itself as a slowly changing background in a spectrum. One of the challenges in the successful use of Raman spectroscopy is to extract Raman signatures from this, orders of magnitude stronger, broadband fluorescence…